Show Your Gratitude with a Thank-a-Teacher Note
During this season of gratitude, we’re reflecting on the thousands of Thank-a-Teacher notes sent through the Center each year. We’re thankful for all of the excellent instructors at Georgia Tech helping create a positive learning environment for our students: faculty, staff, teaching assistants, and instructional associates alike. Read a few of the notes below, and remember to thank your favorite teacher!
To Christina Ragan, faculty in the School of Biological Sciences:
Thank you for being an awesome professor and consistently engaging with the class! Through a lot of practice questions, graph interpretations, and open-ended questions, we learned how to be better notetakers, better collaborators with our peers, and better scientists for whatever careers we end up taking.
To Dan Boros, IA in the OMSCS program:
I really appreciate the thoroughness of information that you provided for CS 7641. This was one the most challenging courses I have ever taken, but in a great way. I felt pushed to understand why things were happening, rather than just producing results. Coursework inevitably must bend to goodhart’s law, and many times that fact makes the course feel narrow in scope, as you are learning to a test. In this course however, I felt like I was learning to build hypotheses and investigate them, to think deeply about a problem, and understand the relationships between data and algorithms. I really struggled to do this at the beginning of the course, and my analysis was weak and surface level. However by the end of the course I felt like I had gotten a handle on the methodology, and improved. This was largely thanks to the feedback and FAQ provided by you (and the other TAs of course). Thanks to the resources provided by you, I was able to transform what was beginning as a failure into a resounding success, with the most satisfying learning outcomes of any course I have taken in years. So thank you. The fact that you put so much work into this course while working a full time job and raising a family is incredibly admirable, and I hope that you know how much of a difference your work has made in my learning outcome, and I’m sure the outcomes of many others.
I am writing to express my deepest gratitude for your invaluable support and mentorship as my thesis advisor. Your guidance throughout the capstone project process and your help in getting my research paper published have been instrumental in my academic journey. The insights and feedback you provided were crucial in shaping my research and ensuring its success. Your dedication to your students is truly inspiring, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the chance to work with you so closely. The knowledge and skills I’ve gained under your advisement will undoubtedly have a lasting impact on my future endeavors. Thank you for believing in me, challenging me, and always being there to provide the support I needed. Your influence has made a significant difference in my education, and I am deeply grateful for everything you’ve done.
